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The classic fair division problems assume the resources to be allocated are either divisible or indivisible, or contain a mixture of both, but the agents always have a predetermined and uncontroversial agreement on the (in)divisibility of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We study the learning problem of revealed preference in a stochastic setting: a learner observes the utility-maximizing actions of a set of agents whose utility follows some unknown distribution, and the learner aims to infer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 John R. Birge , Xiaocheng Li , Chunlin Sun

We investigate the query complexity of the fair allocation of indivisible goods. For two agents with arbitrary monotonic utilities, we design an algorithm that computes an allocation satisfying envy-freeness up to one good (EF1), a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Hoon Oh , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

We consider a control problem involving several agents coupled through multiple unit-demand resources. Such resources are indivisible, and each agent's consumption is modeled as a Bernoulli random variable. Controlling the number of such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

We define and analyze a multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem in which decision-making agents can observe the choices and rewards of their neighbors. Neighbors are defined by a network graph with heterogeneous and stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Udari Madhushani , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

Random dictatorship has been characterized as the only social decision scheme that satisfies efficiency and strategyproofness when individual preferences are strict. We show that no extension of random dictatorship to weak preferences…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Florian Brandl , Felix Brandt , Warut Suksompong

We consider a scenario where multiple agents are learning a common decision vector from data which can be influenced by the agents' decisions. This leads to the problem of multi-agent performative prediction (Multi-PfD). In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Qiang Li , Chung-Yiu Yau , Hoi-To Wai

We study the envy free pricing problem faced by a seller who wishes to maximize revenue by setting prices for bundles of items. If there is an unlimited supply of items and agents are single minded then we show that finding the revenue…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Amos Fiat , Amiram Wingarten

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We study a strategic version of the multi-armed bandit problem, where each arm is an individual strategic agent and we, the principal, pull one arm each round. When pulled, the arm receives some private reward $v_a$ and can choose an amount…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Mark Braverman , Jieming Mao , Jon Schneider , S. Matthew Weinberg

We study bandit best-arm identification with arbitrary and potentially adversarial rewards. A simple random uniform learner obtains the optimal rate of error in the adversarial scenario. However, this type of strategy is suboptimal when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , Peter L. Bartlett , Victor Gabillon , Alan Malek , Michal Valko

Voting and assignment are two of the most fundamental settings in social choice theory. For both settings, random serial dictatorship (RSD) is a well-known rule that satisfies anonymity, ex post efficiency, and strategyproofness. Recently,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Haris Aziz , Julián Mestre

This paper studies the allocation of indivisible items to agents, when each agent's preferences are expressed by means of a directed acyclic graph. The vertices of each preference graph represent the subset of items approved of by the…

Multiwinner voting rules can be used to select a fixed-size committee from a larger set of candidates. We consider approval-based committee rules, which allow voters to approve or disapprove candidates. In this setting, several voting rules…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dominik Peters

How can we monitor, in real time, whether one uncertain prospect has any upside over another? To answer this question, we develop a novel family of sequential, anytime-valid tests for stochastic dominance (SD; also known as stochastic…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-24 Sebastian Arnold , Yo Joong Choe , Marco Scarsini , Ilia Tsetlin

A striking limitation of human cognition is our inability to execute some tasks simultaneously. Recent work suggests that such limitations can arise from a fundamental tradeoff in network architectures that is driven by the sharing of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-08 Yotam Sagiv , Sebastian Musslick , Yael Niv , Jonathan D. Cohen

Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Michele Flammini , Gianpiero Monaco , Qiang Zhang

House Allocations concern with matchings involving one-sided preferences, where houses serve as a proxy encoding valuable indivisible resources (e.g. organs, course seats, subsidized public housing units) to be allocated among the agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Aditi Sethia

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove